UWN Issue 930 February 1-7 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 930 for the week of February 1 - 7, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Launchpad mailing lists have been shut down
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Ubuntu docs: Ah, 2026, the Year of the Linux Desktop!
  • People.ubuntu.com Decommissioning
  • Other Community News
  • What Say You
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Launchpad mailing lists have been shut down

This post tells us the Launchpad mailing lists have been shutdown. We’re given a link to the prior announcement (see: UWN 893) warning us of this shutdown. We are reminded where we can find the archive of the public mailing list and told that if we have problems accessing the archive to make a query on Matrix or ask a question on Launchpad.

https://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-mailing-lists-have-been-shut-down

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144576 (+117)
  • Critical: 307 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 74251 (+60)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • Swedish: 100.00% (0/869)
  • Albanian: 98.87% (3978/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.20% (37921/1654)
  • German: 87.15% (45135/324)
  • French: 85.76% (49985/7539)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and further dates please visit: https://ubuntu.com/community | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the respective Circles!/LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please also see:

The Hub

Ubuntu docs: Ah, 2026, the Year of the Linux Desktop!

Robert Krátký briefly reminds us of Sally Makin’s experimentation with LLMs, then mentions looking at how docs can be accessible to LLMs. We’re told of a documentation sprint relating to Server team docs for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, mention is made of the wiki, WSL and authd homepage restructures, and more. We’re reminded how close to release Ubuntu 26.04 is, and that we’ll hopefully see improved guidance in ubuntu-release-upgrader.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-docs-ah-2026-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/76088

People.ubuntu.com Decommissioning

Aaron Prisk tells us the “Canonical IS team will be decommissioning the SFTP server, people.ubuntu.com” at the end of April 2026. We’re reminded about this service to Ubuntu Members, but warned that anything remaining there on shutdown will be lost.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/people-ubuntu-com-decommissioning/76324

Other Community News

Xubuntu Development Update February 2026

Sean Davis tells us of plans in [upstream] Debian to remove GTK 2 apps and supporting packages in 2027, with us being told GTK 2 apps will remain in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and of the work done in this regard. Discussion is made on the hexchat IRC client which will remain in Xubuntu 26.04 LTS. Sean tells us a Xubuntu [26.04] community wallpaper contest will happen; details to come out later this month. We’re also told of some SSH agent issues in Xubuntu 25.10, given a bug reference and asked that if we know how to ‘restore previous functionality’ to get in touch with Sean. Finally we’re given some details of what is expected in Xubuntu 26.04 LTS, and how we can help.

https://seand.xyz/blog/2026/02/02/xubuntu-development-update-february-2026/

What Say You

A flawless experience

“I’ve been running Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ on my ‘Streaming Fortress’ PC
NUC7 - Intel J5005 - 16GB DDR4-2400 RAM - 120GB SSD (2013 Hardware)
for the last two months now. I put this machine through the wringer: heavy streaming on a bit ambiguous shady sites films and tv series, and running custom ‘Fortress’ scripts to isolate it completely from my home network. Despite the hardware being a bit old and the heavy workload, it’s been a flawless experience so far. Even the major updates didn’t break my custom scripts or security structure. Well done, Ubuntu team!!” anon_4601

https://ubuntu.social/@anon_4601@nerdculture.de/116009050121705450

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Press

Rust Coreutils in Ubuntu: Yes, we rewrote /bin/true in Rust — Here’s what really happened

This post, and a talk by Sylvestre Ledru at FOSDEM 2026 (embedded link included), covers “the fun, the sharp edges, and the truly unexpected lessons from bringing Rust Coreutils into Ubuntu”. Sylvestre discusses ‘online troll predictions’ and more, comparing with ‘real world data-driven’ results. This post discusses more of the ‘human aspect’ than his prior technical presentations (in 2023 & 2025).

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTYYL9-rust-coreutils/

Ubuntu 26.04 surprised me - this upcoming release is seriously secure

Jack Wallen gives us his impressions on a ‘test’ of the current Ubuntu resolute (26.04) daily. We’re given his first impression (“Yep, this is Ubuntu”) through to his discovery that he considers it a “pretty important release”, with reasons given.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-04-new-release/

Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

Brandon Vigliarolo tells us the developer who maintains the sudo command is asking for help to “keep the project alive”. We’re told Todd C. Miller, who has maintained the project for more than 30 years, has blogged about needing a sponsor (link provided to Todd’s blog). An update has been added to the blog after Todd ‘got in touch’ with more specifics of needs provided; which includes a view that Todd expects “sudo-rs to become the next generation of the tool in coming years”.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/sudo_maintainer_asks_for_help/

In the Blogosphere

Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf

Michael Larabel tells us Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available, and passes 622 GNU Coreutils tests or is around 96.28% compatible. Mention is made of the Rust Coreutils FOSDEM presentation, as well as touching on some improvements, including some related to performance in this release. A link to GitHub is given for more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.6

GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI

Michael Larabel writes about some Mutter compositor improvements that have been merged by Jonas Ådahl for GNOME 50. We’re given details, a quote from Jonas Ådahl’s merge request, and told this is a “nice improvement”.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Remote-Desktop-HiDPI

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Users Get Linux 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 Ahead of Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Marcus Nestor reports on the new HWE updates for 24.04 LTS: Linux 6.17 kernel and Mesa 25.2 graphics stacks from Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka). Advice for updating is given.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-users-get-linux-6-17-and-mesa-25-2-ahead-of-ubuntu-24-04-4-lts

Featured Audio and Video

Portugal Podcast: Episode 372 - Volta à Idade Média

“Depois de uma tempestade que deixou metade do país às escuras, aproveitámos e voltámos à Idade Média (ou seja, Portugal contemporâneo). Com os preços dos Raspberry Pi a subir, estará na altura de voltar aos ábacos? Como foi a peregrinação à FOSDEM? Que novidades traz o Diogo? O mundo do Firefox está em polvorosa com Autos de Fé; o LibreOffice pula e avança no mundo germanófono; os Snaps podem agora ser farejados por uma nova ferramenta; anda aí um novo Kernel e imagens de Ubuntu 26.04 para testar; o Papers já permite desenhar bonecos e o Steam tem ainda mais jogos para arrombar o monopólio de outros sistemas (por favor não usem o termo Microslop).”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e372/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026

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